rejection slip

noun

a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.

Origin of rejection slip

1905-1910

1905-10

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How I wish some magazine would get a new kind of rejection slip!

The Pot Boiler Upton Sinclair
The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor.

Martin Eden Jack London
One of these pluggers declares he blesses the rejection slip because it "eliminates so many quitters."

If You Don't Write Fiction Charles Phelps Cushing

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